The Kalash people living in the northwestern part of Pakistan, living in three remote valleys of the Hindu Kush mountain range, are called the 'Greeks of Asia'. The highlighted materials are excerpts printed from...
This one freaked me out when I read it. Venezuelan villagers have been dying from vampire bat bites. The symptoms point to rabies. Health officials are planning to bring mosquito nets to the villages in hopes of...
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Some plucky Girl Scouts have decided to take a stand on the cookies that group is famous for. They've learned the production of palm oil, an ingredient in the cookies, is bad for the habitat of endangered...
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Human DNA in Ancient Excrement, Here's the PoopHere is proof that it is very difficult to get rid of a bunch of crap. Ever ask, "how long you had that crap?" Been told, throw that crap out. ...
Survival of the fittest, or survival of the fastest?"WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Human evolution has been moving at breakneck speed in the past several thousand years, far from plodding along as some scientists...
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""Prof Jacob died after an intensive treatment of a chronic liver disease," UGM spokesman Suryo Baskoro said.
Prof T Jacob who is a UGM physical anthropologist also known for his controversial discovery of the...
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According to sniffl.com
an athropologist with Rutgers University has done a study which shows
that one of the long term effects of anti depression medications is the
inability to feel love. Even though at this time this is only
a theory, the study provides an...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorWe all know racism exists in some form or another, will Technology and Immigration eradicate Racism one day? What with vast developments in technology and immigration,...
"A 1-1/2-million-year-old skull and an equally old jaw found in Kenya are helping rewrite the history of early man, eliminating one reputed ancestor from the human lineage and suggesting that another was much more primitive than previously believed, researchers said...
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The iconic Masada mountain, in the Judean desert of Israel, has been a symbol of Jewish complacency for centuries. Leaders of Israel have often cited the last stand and ultimate suicide of the inhabitants of...
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"Eureka! Tents Shelter Porters' Progress
Porters’ Progress is a Nepali-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated to improving the lives of trekking porters through programs that emphasize advocacy, education and empowerment. Porters’ Progress began in May 2000...
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"Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint -- a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin.
The reconstruction of the fingerprint was the...
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"You don't have to be a biologist or an anthropologist to see how closely the great apes—gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans—resemble us. Even a child can see that their bodies are pretty much the...
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"An evolutionary arms race between early snakes and mammals triggered the development of improved vision and large brains in primates, a radical new theory suggests. The idea, proposed by Lynne Isbell, an...
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